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The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves. — Jerry Seinfeld

There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others. — Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

Time is a slippery concept, and we are often wrong about it ... All too often we find ourselves looking in the right places at the wrong times. — Frank Partnoy

We can only love the way we were created to if we are first whole in ourselves. — Aaron M. Patterson

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise. — Alice Walker

In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves. — Assata Shakur

We prefer humility in others - and if we prefer it in others - we can soon prefer it in ourselves. — Frederick Lenz

In dividing the light, things are seen. And we notice ourselves. — John Allison

If we want to be used for the benefit of mankind-helping the Lord with his mission-we must ourselves be in a position to be used by him. — Elaine A. Cannon

I'm interested in how a lot of people pull objects together to form an environment that we feel reflects ourselves or makes us feel comfortable. — Matt Smith

Half of the world lives on [about] $2 a day. If there is a hungry kid in the world, we shouldn't consider ourselves more evolved than homo habilis. — Shakira

God challenges all of us to attempt things for him which we are unable to do in ourselves, so that the Glory may be his. — Phyllis Irwin

There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves. — Anne Carson

We all retreat into ourselves in some way. — Dan Simmons

In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence. — Chris Hedges

We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in. — Christie Watson

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The track's all yours. We won't get in your way: by then we will have set off chasing ourselves rather than you. — Wislawa Szymborska

So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live. — George Chapman

It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily. — Ram Dass

We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others. — John Wesley

Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God — David Platt

We need to put no confidence in the arm of flesh, but rather trust ourselves entirely to the arm of the Lord. — Joyce Meyer

We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them. — Piero Ferrucci

We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off. — Ian Williams

In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves. — Pema Chodron

Prayer will never descend to the level where it is nothing more than a retreat house in which we find strength for ourselves, — D. A. Carson

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us. — John Steinbeck

To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves. — A.H. Almaas

Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere. — Christian Nestell Bovee

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves. — Anais Nin

In the worship of security we fling ourselves beneath the wheels of routine-and before we know it our lives are gone. — Sterling Hayden

It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable. — Michel Houellebecq

The place at which the contrast between forms of intelligibility is most vividly presented is in the understanding of ourselves. — Thomas Nagel

Every yesterday we lose ourselves so that we can find ourselves in tomorrow. — Raneem Kayyali

There is only one reality: the act of feeling ourselves in the process of making choices. — Erich Fromm

In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves. — Jean De La Bruyere

I thought, Hatred is vital to good health, and I thought, To find ourselves in harmony with the world is a lethal infection. — Antonio Lobo Antunes

We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better ... we never get satisfied. — George Harrison

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them. — Constantin Brancusi

God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves. — Sidney Sheldon

Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity. — Lionel Shriver

Greaness IS for ALL of US. We just need to keep Believing in ourselves and follow our dreams. — Zeenat Aman

We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are. — Mary Baker Eddy

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past. — Jack Kornfield

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past. — Michael Simkins

It is now time to change our ways, so we may learn how to help ourselves in order to help others in a much more relaxed and positive way. — Gary Markwick

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves. — Robert Olen Butler

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

What sense is there in pain at all - however we contrive it for ourselves as we cast about for ways to bind up the wound between us and God? — Anne Carson

We happen upon ourselves when nothing much happens to us, and we are transformed in the process. — Anthony Lane

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail. — Alice Foote MacDougall

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists
believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic. — Woodrow Wilson

Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven. — Neal A. Maxwell

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves. — Thomas A Kempis

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. — Mark Twain

To love ourselves is to act respectfully toward ourselves, to enjoy our own company when in solitude, to honor our limits and speak our truths. — Anodea Judith

We are citizens of heaven.
We must conduct ourselves, worthy of our calling, faith in Christ. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In order to stretch ourselves we do need to experience the vulnerability of not knowing the outcome. — Philippa Perry

I think we sometimes give ourselves a little too much credit as humans, as being able to control and understand nature, when in fact we do neither. — Richard Preston

We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

We live in a time when there is an abundance of ways we can express ourselves. — Jerry Pinkney

Salvation and sanity consist in the most radical recognition that we have no way of saving ourselves. This — Alan W. Watts

Remember it's all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in. — Grant Morrison

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. — Henry David Thoreau

In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the short term. — Richard Leakey

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves. — Pema Chodron

The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations. — Albert Ellis

Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves. — Swami Vivekananda

Confidence is something we all search for in ourselves, but! Its always there to give us strength and hope. — Saleem Durrani

Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others. — Michel De Montaigne

Our very existence in that distant time requires that we will have changed our institutions and ourselves. — Carl Sagan

Cancer is a flaw in our growth, but this flaw is deeply entrenched in ourselves. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves. — Carl Jung

If we sow the seeds of hatred and envy and discouragement in others, we, in turn, develop these qualities in ourselves. — Napoleon Hill

We are attracted to people who express the qualities we deny or repress in ourselves. — Shakti Gawain

Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in. — Brigham Young

Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves. — Sarah Van Arsdale

We all have struggle in our lives. We're all searching for personal freedom, whether we're in a bad place or trying to be true to ourselves. — Barbara Becker Holstein

There are lies in tears. The ones we weep most loudly are usually for ourselves, yet how easily we can pass them off as grief. — Kate Kerrigan

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves. — Pico Iyer

In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.' — Phil Collins

When we experience conflict or dissatisfaction, we are being called on to develop something in ourselves that is weak, hidden, or unknown. — Jett Psaris

But we can control ourselves - right now, in this moment. That's something. Maybe it's everything. — Therese Walsh

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember. — Samuel Johnson

It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures. — Alan Hirsch

I know a couple of my friends - quite a few - there is a conservative movement in Hollywood, and we kind of stay amongst ourselves. — Robert Davi

In Nightly Dreams our most Wonders Happen in Daily Life we Must Create the Miracles Ourselves. — Jan Jansen

Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves. — Richard M. Nixon

We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in — Jewel

The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile. — Albert Einstein

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead. — Jeanette Winterson

We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people. — Huey Newton

My father in his way influenced me and my sister to educate ourselves and to try to do things in life. — Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki

In our quest to prove ourselves, we forget that there is a life beyond those corporate walls — Zahir Chauhan

The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing. — Dorothy Allison

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest. — Orison Swett Marden

To live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an aesthetic one. — Frederick C. Beiser

It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves. — David Levithan